Generalista Glossary

Glossary of Key Terms

Use these definitions to align how your team talks about specialist depth, strategic breadth, and capability expansion in the AI era.

Generalista

A specialist with strategic breadth across adjacent capabilities.

A UX professional who can operate across research, design, and product collaboration.

High proficiency in one discipline that produces quality and rigor.

Targeted adjacent capability expansion tied to real workflow blockers.

Complementary skills that help you execute across team boundaries.

The ability to produce larger outcomes with the same effort.

A recurring dependency that slows delivery and decisions.

A short execution sequence for building one capability in live work.